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fohara | 6 months ago | on: CauseNet: Towards a causality graph extracted from the web

The associated paper references Judea Pearl's theories on causality, but curiously doesn't mention the DoWhy implementation [0], which seems to have some recognition in the causal inference space.

[0] https://github.com/py-why/dowhy

fohara | 1 year ago | on: Troubled electric truck maker Nikola files for bankruptcy

Apparently some of the software in Nikola vehicles was written in Crystal [1]. [1] https://manas.tech/blog/2020/02/11/nikola-motor-company/

fohara | 2 years ago | on: The beauty of finished software

Did it compile to wasm and run at the edge at scale?

fohara | 4 years ago | on: TinyBase: A JavaScript library for structured state

The reactive data store bits seem very similar to baobab.js [0]. Baobab's api seems a bit more terse though, which I prefer.

[0] https://github.com/Yomguithereal/baobab

fohara | 6 years ago | on: Electron 6.0

I'm surprised Kivy [0] doesn't get more attention for desktop app development. Apps are developed in Python, it's cross-platform and MIT licensed. Running the hello world example uses just ~2.5% cpu and ~57mb memory on a 2015 mbp.

[0] https://github.com/kivy/kivy

fohara | 7 years ago | on: Browse State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Papers with Code

This seems very similar to GitXiv: http://www.gitxiv.com . Maybe there is an opportunity to join forces.

fohara | 8 years ago | on: Substrate VM – A framework that allows AOT compilation of Java applications

Does Substrate VM have cross-platform support for major operating systems (i.e. for Linux, Windows, MacOS)? If so, can a binary compiled on MacOS run on Windows, and vice versa?

fohara | 8 years ago | on: Functions as a Service: Serverless Framework for Docker and Kubernetes

Seems similar to OpenWhisk: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk . The built-in metrics reporting of OpenFaas looks useful though.

fohara | 9 years ago | on: Firefox 52 released

Nice. Maybe it's finally time to upgrade to the latest Firefox for testing. We had been pegged at an older version because we ran into some issues with the new (at the time) MarionetteDriver[1], but I imagine the migration might be smoother now.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Marionet...

fohara | 9 years ago | on: AnyDSL: A Framework for Rapid Development of Domain-Specific Libraries

I'm wondering how this compares to Xtext[1], which is another framework for developing domain specific languages. Xtext feels more approachable to me, but maybe that's because there appears to be a lot more documentation and tooling.

For example, the docs on Xtext's grammar language[2] seem very intuitive to me, even though I'm not experienced in compilers or language design. I don't have quite the same intuition when looking over the AnyDSL docs[3]. Maybe the Xtext docs are just more goal-oriented, i.e. "Five simple steps to your first language".

[1] https://eclipse.org/Xtext/index.html [2] https://eclipse.org/Xtext/documentation/301_grammarlanguage.... [3] https://github.com/AnyDSL/anydsl/wiki/Tutorial

fohara | 9 years ago | on: Aheui: Esoteric programming language designed for Hangul

"This code prints 'Hello, world!'

  밤밣따빠밣밟따뿌
  빠맣파빨받밤뚜뭏
  돋밬탕빠맣붏두붇
  볻뫃박발뚷투뭏붖
  뫃도뫃희멓뭏뭏붘
  뫃봌토범더벌뿌뚜
  뽑뽀멓멓더벓뻐뚠
  뽀덩벐멓뻐덕더벅

"

fohara | 9 years ago | on: Project Malmö – A platform for AI experimentation and research in Minecraft

I wonder how this compares to BurlapCraft[1], which is a mod of Minecraft integrated with BURLAP- a reinforcement learning and planning library.

[1] http://h2r.cs.brown.edu/announcing-burlapcraft/

fohara | 10 years ago | on: How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?

I think this is solid advice. I continue learning by picking problems/inconveniences I encounter while working during the day, and then doing whatever research is required to make those things less inconvenient. In the process of researching the problem space, I'm often introduced to new programming concepts and tools that I would have otherwise never known about. Overall, I find it easier to learn new things if I have a real problem I'm trying to solve.

fohara | 12 years ago | on: Wraith – A screenshot comparison tool from the BBC

Automated layout analysis is pretty tricky. The data reported from the DOM is not always reliable, so it's helpful to couple it with computer vision data. I spoke about an integrated approach at Selenium Conf 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF0QUD0kuiQ

fohara | 12 years ago | on: “Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Java” by Mark Watson

I'm wondering if there were any specific reasons as to why Weka was used instead of Mahout for the machine learning chapter, as both are in Java.